Competitive advantage is driven by cost reduction. However, cost reduction is a by-product of the efforts to improve quality and reduce time of availability. Reducing manufacturing changeover time (setup reduction -SMED) accomplishes this. It provides the benefits of quality and time reduction while developing flexibility to respond to customer changes. How well are you doing this? What kind of insight and advantage are you giving your customers? Understand what are the tasks to do this. Contact the author for more direction in this area! Mike Gozzo …
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Gaining Control over Cost and Quality in Global Manufacturing
FREE Seminar: Gaining Control over Cost and Quality in Global Manufacturing: State of the Art Approaches from Design to Sourcing to Production February 7 - 8:30am - 1pm Speakers: Mike Silverman of Ops A La Carte, Duane Lowenstein of Agilent, Nader Fathi of Camstar, Jason Ruppert of Harmonic Note that this will be repeated in Taiwan in Spring/Summer, 2012 Agilent Technologies 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd. Santa Clara, California 95051 Global competition is accelerating the pace of innovation and development of complex electronics systems, while forcing down price to consumers. Product life cycles are shrinking, shortening the time required for new products to ramp to volume production, while trying to ensure highest quality to avoid brand erosion. As Brand Owners look to reduce …
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